55 Chelsea Sodaro - Train Like the Athlete You Want to Become
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Chelsea Sodaro was born to be an athlete. Both parents competed in triathlon and Chelsea also remembers her Dad training for the Boston Marathon!
With energy like that in your life, how could you not love sport?! And she did. Chelsea fell in love with running, which took her through college at Cal Berkeley along with a post-collegiate professional running career.
She may be a superhuman on the track, but she is also very human, having suffered frustrating injuries and setbacks that kept her from having the running career that she truly desired.
But, just like the rest of us, she was inspired by the 2016 Rio Olympic triathlon. She loved watching the build-up to that race and decided to give the sport a go knowing it would provide a new outlet for athletics and beneficial cross-training.
Today, she’s just a couple of years into her professional career and in the process of writing history. Chelsea landed on the podium in both of her 70.3 races in 2018, including an overall win at Indian Wells 70.3.
She opens up with Matt today on her past and the valuable lessons that triathlon has brought into her life. She also discusses:
- Her Key Ingredients for Successful Training
- Non-negotiable habits in her life
- The Value of Good Coaching on her career
- Advice on Searching for the Right Coach
- Highlights of Attending Camp
- Rookie Mistakes at Races
And finally, Chelsea shares what success in the sport of triathlon will look like for her.
Her answer may surprise you. Or maybe not. It is an intimate coaching moment with Matt that resonates across all performance levels.
Best of luck, Chelsea. Your Purple Patch fans are cheering for your success!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life. |
| 0:19.8 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as ever, your host Matt Dixon here. |
| 0:25.2 | And this week, well, we're going to welcome one of our newer Purple Patch pros, Chelsea |
| 0:30.3 | Cedaro, Chelsea, or CS Gas, as I like to call her. |
| 0:35.6 | She is a consummate professional with an athletic career that went |
| 0:38.8 | through college and multiple years at the professional level in running. And now she takes on |
| 0:43.6 | long course triathlon. And I'm going to tell you this. I'll give you a hot tip. Keep your eyes |
| 0:51.2 | and ears open for this one over the coming seasons. |
| 0:55.8 | Chelsea brings so much. |
| 1:01.0 | And as you'll hear, she has a wealth of insight and knowledge for all performance-minded people. |
| 1:04.5 | And as you tackle your own performance journey, there is a lot to learn. |
| 1:06.7 | And so this week, no word of the week. |
| 1:08.5 | Yep, no jingle, I'm afraid. |
| 1:11.1 | We are going right into the meat of potatoes. |
| 1:12.4 | So here we go. |
| 1:13.8 | CS Gas. |
| 1:17.3 | Off for you, Purple Patch Pro, Chelsea Sedaro. |
| 1:23.9 | All right, folks, we've got a cracker today. |
| 1:32.1 | I am joined by one Chelsea Sedaro, who is relatively new on the Purple Patch roster of our professional squad. And we are currently Chelsea down in Scottsdale in Arizona, |
| 1:37.5 | spending entirely too much time with each other at our pro training camp here in January. |
| 1:43.1 | But I asked Chelsea onto the show to have a chat a little bit about her background and story, |
| 1:47.9 | but hopefully provide you folks listening with a little education around all aspects of the sport. |
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